matthewcieplak's comments

If you're trying to share galleries on dropbox but not to the whole internet, you should try views.fm: http://www.views.fm

If you find a "hack" like this on a music website, keep it to your self. If you post about it, they'll try to fix it or obscure it but who knows if some guy at soundcloud will revoke their api key first or some major label dick will initiate legal proceedings forthwith. And then you've just kicked your favorite music site in the nuts, congratulations.

By the way, if you can stream it, you can download it, on any service. One-time use streaming keys are no defense against right clicking. It's just a matter of how much patience you have to expose the underlying URL.

UCC Coffee? http://www.amazon.com/UCC-Original-Coffee-Milk-11-3-Ounce/dp...

SoundManager2 does this as well. http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/

Interesting. Seems like a less flashy version of instant.fm: http://instant.fm/p/90

You've implied that you believe the number of poor people not working is so high because we skew their motivation toward "couch surfing" through aid programs. I am arguing that many are in fact "working" on something besides a full-time job, and would not be convinced to adopt another lifestyle by minor disincentives in welfare. Aid to the poor is a social program, not an economic widget, and surveying the number of people in the program who are actively seeking self-sufficiency is an utterly worthless metric of its efficacy.

The flaw in your analysis, and your linked article, is following the fallacy of Homo Economicus, which is "an arbitrary definition of man, as a being who inevitably does that by which he may obtain the greatest amount of necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries, with the smallest quantity of labour and physical self-denial with which they can be obtained." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus

In reality, humans rich and poor alike have many considerations of equal or greater importance than their utility function. For example, people not work full-time because they are in school, because they are practicing an art or craft, because they are taking care of family, because they have a wealthy benefactor, because they are employed in an illegal trade like drugs or prostitution, or because they are trying to break into a difficult industry like film.

The flickr homepage really is awful. What's worse, though, is that if I click on a photo, the sidebar is still populated with the mixed-content photostream. If I want to browse, I want to just see that user's photos, and it requires clicking on a tiny "expand" arrow that only gives me 3 tiny thumbnails. Seriously flickr, take a cue from apple and get some larger, more navigable navigation.

Fake polaroid photos aren't real!

Yeah, well digital photos aren't real either. They're just zeros and ones representing photos. Furthermore, photos aren't real things, they're just pictures of the things themselves. While we're at it, the things you look with your eyes at aren't really the things themselves, they're just light that's been reflected off them, and the appearance of an "image" of the scene is a mere illusion!

Finally, the way you compare a picture with your remembrance of a scene is utterly artificial. Your memory is fallible, mostly reconstituted from broad sketches and details filled in from similar pictures. Everything is fake! Get over it.

(Except for touch, taste, and smell. Which is why you should download my new app, OlfactoGustaKinetogram, exclusively on Android.)

Wow, they couldn't have found a more gracious accidental celebrity.

I share your feeling in terms of being circumspect about the claims of "justice" and cynical about our leaders' motives. But I have to think it's better that he wasn't taken alive. Can you imagine the media & political circus that would have resulted? And the mock trial we would have had for him? The last thing we need to do is parade him on TV for 3 months and give him worldwide martyrdom. American reactions are bad enough as it is.

Given knowledge of his whereabouts, the prosecution of a terrorist mastermind and financier was the only option, though I suppose whether it would be better to try and execute him or kill him in combat is debatable.

"Some type of 2yr contract" is actually easier to understand than whatever they were going to put there...